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The rate of deforestation in West Africa was around 2% (12 000 km²) per annum during the 1980s, and recent evidence from Cameroon suggests that the ra...

Despite their functional importance, little is known about how and where fungi can be conserved. It is important that we understand the consequences o...

The expansion of oil palm plantations at the expense of tropical forests is causing declines in many species and altering ecosystem functions. Maintai...

In Mora excelsa rain forests of Trinidad, leaf fall was heavy, from August to October and from February to April. For a single year the leaf fall was ...

The potential of small, isolated maize fields embedded in a large forest matrix (average canopy height 30 m, dominant trees Dialium guianense, Licania...

Forest management determines to a large degree the three-dimensional arrangement of the vegetation in production forest systems and hence has an essen...

Fragmentation of tropical forests is increasing globally, with negative impacts for biodiversity. In Southeast Asia, expansion of oil palm agriculture...

Budongo Forest Reserve has been logged selectively for over 60 years. Most compartments in the Reserve have records of the volume of timber removed, d...

Unprecedented forest fires are affecting large swathes of what were once fire-free Amazonian forests, including extensive areas of community-managed r...

Measurements at monthly intervals showed that leaf-fall in the Mora excelsa rain forests of Trinidad was much greater in Aug. Oct. and in Feb. April t...